1. 01 May, 2012 6 commits
    • Eric Dumazet's avatar
      tg3: provide frags as skb head · 8d4057a9
      Eric Dumazet authored
      This patch converts tg3 driver, one of our reference drivers, to use new
      build_skb() api in frag mode.
      
      Instead of using kmalloc() to allocate the memory block that will be
      used by build_skb() as skb->head, we use a page fragment.
      
      This is a followup of patch "net: allow skb->head to be a page fragment"
      
      This allows GRO, TCP coalescing, and splice() to be more efficient.
      
      Incidentally, this also removes SLUB slow path contention in kfree()
      Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
      Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
      Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
      Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
      Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
      Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
      Cc: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
      Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
      Cc: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
      Cc: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      8d4057a9
    • Eric Dumazet's avatar
      net: allow skb->head to be a page fragment · d3836f21
      Eric Dumazet authored
      skb->head is currently allocated from kmalloc(). This is convenient but
      has the drawback the data cannot be converted to a page fragment if
      needed.
      
      We have three spots were it hurts :
      
      1) GRO aggregation
      
       When a linear skb must be appended to another skb, GRO uses the
      frag_list fallback, very inefficient since we keep all struct sk_buff
      around. So drivers enabling GRO but delivering linear skbs to network
      stack aren't enabling full GRO power.
      
      2) splice(socket -> pipe).
      
       We must copy the linear part to a page fragment.
       This kind of defeats splice() purpose (zero copy claim)
      
      3) TCP coalescing.
      
       Recently introduced, this permits to group several contiguous segments
      into a single skb. This shortens queue lengths and save kernel memory,
      and greatly reduce probabilities of TCP collapses. This coalescing
      doesnt work on linear skbs (or we would need to copy data, this would be
      too slow)
      
      Given all these issues, the following patch introduces the possibility
      of having skb->head be a fragment in itself. We use a new skb flag,
      skb->head_frag to carry this information.
      
      build_skb() is changed to accept a frag_size argument. Drivers willing
      to provide a page fragment instead of kmalloc() data will set a non zero
      value, set to the fragment size.
      
      Then, on situations we need to convert the skb head to a frag in itself,
      we can check if skb->head_frag is set and avoid the copies or various
      fallbacks we have.
      
      This means drivers currently using frags could be updated to avoid the
      current skb->head allocation and reduce their memory footprint (aka skb
      truesize). (thats 512 or 1024 bytes saved per skb). This also makes
      bpf/netfilter faster since the 'first frag' will be part of skb linear
      part, no need to copy data.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
      Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
      Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
      Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
      Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
      Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
      Cc: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
      Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
      Cc: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
      Cc: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      d3836f21
    • Willem de Bruijn's avatar
      forcedeth: add transmit timestamping support · 49cbb1c1
      Willem de Bruijn authored
      Insert an skb_tx_timestamp call in both ndo_start_xmit routines
      Tested to work for the nv_start_xmit_optimized case
      Signed-off-by: default avatarWillem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      49cbb1c1
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